Bronislaw Geremek, a leading thinker in Poland's anti-communist Solidarity movement and a former foreign minister, was killed in a car crash on Sunday aged 76.

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin played her role in defrauding £250,000 with "superb aplomb", a court heard today.

The radical extension of maternity leave is in danger of sabotaging women's careers, the head of the new equality watchdog warned today.

Three men accused of plotting a series of suicide attacks on transatlantic jets pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cause explosions.

Glebe Mines, owned by INEOS (the multi-billion pound company that owns Runcorn chemical works) have put in an application to the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) to build an open pit quarry on Wensley Hillside. The site, which is

NAZRAN, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - At least one police officer and one gunman were killed Monday in a shootout in the center of Nazran, the largest city in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, a local law enforcement source

The Independent on Sunday newspaper said the youth claims he was forced to perform a sex act on another youth while the two were being held as suspected looters by British forces in May, 2003 at a base in southern

The MediaGuardian 100 power list, which measures the economic, cultural and political influence was topped by Brin and Page in recognition "of the all-pervasive impact of Google on the media". James, chairman of satellite broadcaster BSkyB in Britain and News

Britons convicted of carrying knives will be made to visit hospital emergency wards in an attempt to confront them with the reality of stab wounds, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said. Convicted knife carriers will also have to meet families

President Viktor Yuschenko said this in an interview with the Der Standard newspaper, Austria.

Young urban professionals tend to enjoy a more transient lifestyle than their older counterparts, leading many to stay in the rental property sector for longer, it has been pointed out.

For the savviest of homeowners, the recession currently looming over the UK could present significant opportunities to make a move up the property ladder, it has been claimed.

A ruling is expected next week in motorsport Max Mosley's groundbreaking privacy case at the High Court.

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The order was signed for the purpose of establishing an effective socially important system of military-patriotic training of soldiers, of forming an active public position, military-professional, moral-psychological, and physical qualities in the military personnel...

French Ambassador to Ukraine Jean-Paul Veziant said this in an interview with the Ekonomicheskie Izvestia newspaper.

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To celebrate that cartons can now be recycled in Charnwood, the Council and Tetra Pak have joined forces to raise awareness of the new carton collection facilities. The Council is encouraging residents to pledge to recycle their cartons by visiting

FARNBOROUGH, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia may launch a joint venture with China to continue the development of a new passenger airliner, MS-21, the head of a Russian state-run aviation corporation said on Monday. "We will come to a

MOSCOW, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Moscow City Court refused on Monday to summon the city mayor and other high-profile witnesses in the case of former Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin, charged with organizing murders and attempted murders. The billionaire